Here's How To Prevent The Next School Shooting, Experts Say

[G_j]

https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/03/07/590877717/experts-say-here-s-how-to-prevent-the-next-school-shooting?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20180307


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About 200 universities, national education and mental health groups, school districts, and more than 2,300 individual experts have signed on to support this document in the weeks since.


Their topline message: Don't harden schools. Make them softer, by improving social and emotional health.

"If we're really talking about prevention, my perspective is that we should go for the public health approach," says Ron Avi Astor at the University of Southern California, who also helped draft the plan.

A public health approach to disease means, instead of waiting for people to be rushed to emergency rooms with heart attacks or the flu, you go into the community: with vaccinations, screenings, fruits and vegetables, walking trails and exercise coaches. You screen and regulate environmental hazards, like a nearby polluting factory. You keep watch on reported cases of illness, to stop a new outbreak in its tracks.

A public health approach to school shootings, Astor explains, would be much along the same lines.

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[lark]

1. Yes, this would be a good start and is much needed.

But it does nothing about actual guns being used for max body count. Needed are the following, IMO

Ban assault weapons, ban expanded magazines, ban bump stocks. Government buy-back and after 2 years they are illegal.
Background checks for everyone, no exceptions
All guns must have locks and be stored locked - stop the plague of child suicide and killings
No permits for anyone with a restraining order or on terrorist watch list
10 day waiting period - time for a thorough background check and would stop some of the tens of thousands of suicides
21 age limit for all guns
No more than 1 gun purchase per year per individual
Must receive training and show certificate of passing before getting a gun

This would stop a lot of killing.

[Angry Dragon]

2. Mental health should start at the TOP